Rob Gallagher
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Posts by rob
Domain renewal scams
October 28, 2009 - 21:10
Posted in DNS, Scams | No comments
Some of my domains are coming up for renewal, right on cue the scam letters start arriving in the post. The scammers trawl whois information and send out demands for “renewal” to unsuspecting domain users. Send enough of them and somebody, somewhere will pay up. They’re getting pretty sophisticated compared to the ones from previous [...]
DWM config
Recently, I started using dwm as my main window manager. At less than 3000 lines of C, it’s somewhat more lightweight than others I’ve used in the past. The automatic window placement and stacking is really handy, especially when you tend to have a lot of terminals open, it keeps things nice and organised. There [...]
Lisbon lulz
October 1, 2009 - 11:03
Posted in Funny, Lisbon Treaty | No comments
So with the big vote tomorrow, it’s time to get away from the boring debates, talking heads, crazies/nutjobs and inject some humour. Anti-lisbon spoof posters. Spoof posters that made into the papers!. No poster generator. And last but not least, the spoofers guide to Lisbon. This is actually useful and a laugh and a half [...]
SpamAssassin DNS lookups over IPv6
September 15, 2009 - 14:58
Posted in DNS, IPv6, Security, Spam | No comments
With the recent surge in AIB phishing mails, I thought it might be worth looking at our SpamAssassin setup to see if there was anything that could be done to filter them out. AIB helpfully publish SPF records for the aib.ie domain, so the first port of call was SAs SPF lookups. Which I noticed [...]
Updates to bind and the open resolver project
July 29, 2009 - 10:28
Posted in DNS, Security | No comments
If you haven’t done so already, now would be a good time to update bind9. A remote exploit is doing the rounds. In related news, Team Cymru is running a scan for open DNS resolvers. It’s surprising the amount of DNS servers out there that are un-intentionally left wide open and, even worse, don’t implement [...]
